androcentricadj.
/ˌandrə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪk/, U.S. /ˌændroʊˈsɛntrɪk/, /ˌændrəˈsɛntrɪk/ΚΠ
1887 Bibliotheca Sacra Apr. 216 The gospel with reference to the conditions of salvation is andro-centric... The gospel revolves around man.
2. Centred on, dominated by, or concerned primarily with men as opposed to women. Cf. gynocentric adj.
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the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > man-centred
androcentric1890
1890 Jrnl. Educ. Nov. 587/2 Either of which [considerations] is sufficient to account for the inferiority of woman's academic performances without having recourse to the androcentric theory of the Poet Laureate.
1911 C. P. Gilman Man-made World xiv. 259 One major cause of the decay of nations is ‘the social evil’—a thing wholly due to the androcentric culture.
1959 Guardian 6 Nov. 6/5 The Fathers of the Church accepted from their cultural environment the androcentric standpoint.
1997 Church Times 18 July 14/2 He examines Ruth as a gynocentric story in what is, for the most part, an androcentric collection of writing.
Derivatives
androcenˈtricity n. the fact or quality of being centred on, dominated by, or concerned primarily with men as opposed to women.
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1909 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 637 The androcentricity of society, the root evil of which maladjustments in family and sex life are only too often the specific manifestations.
2000 Wall St. Jrnl. (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 7 Apr. Despite the scriptures' undoubtable androcentricity, over 200 women are listed by name.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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androcentric
androcentric adj. /ændrəʊˈsɛntrɪk/ having man, or the male, as its centre.
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1903 L. F. Ward Pure Sociol. xiv. 292 The androcentric theory is the view that the male sex is primary and the female secondary in the organic scheme, that all things center, as it were, about the male.
1959 Guardian 6 Nov. 6/5 The Fathers of the Church accepted from their cultural environment the androcentric standpoint.
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